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Posted by drbrizman on October 14, 2008 at 10:47pm
Welcome to the Interstitial Cystitis Alternative Medical Association. This is a place of hope and a place where you may gain information on restoring your body to a place of proper balance and health. Please read through all of our blogs, old and new. This site is rich with research, tips, and great conversation on Interstitial Cystitis and general challenges in getting and staying healthy. I have posted the words Interstitial Cystitis a lot if you click on more below as a test, honestly, to see if it draws more attention to this site!
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Posted by drbrizman on October 14, 2008 at 10:34pm
Yesterday, one of my patients emailed and asked me a question about another patient who had told her about hormone therapy for Interstitial Cystitis. She said she had been doing much better since she had received it. While in some cases, hormones may make a difference in your symptoms, and even I once thought that in some cases hormone therapy was a must, my experience has been that hormones simply cycle problems back eventually, create other problems of imbalance that lead to more complicated conditions, and put the patient at a much higher risk for very serious diseases such as cancer.
Posted by drbrizman on October 12, 2008 at 10:59pm
If you are reaching this site for the first time I want to welcome you to a place where hope through an alternative viewpoint on life and health may be introduced to you for the first time.
Alterntaive medicine had been around for far longer than the traditional medicine we practice today. It is just that, it was not cosidered alternative before. It has become alternative as the various kinds of natural medicine have been placed aside and traditional medicine as we know it today has taken front stage.
Posted by drbrizman on October 10, 2008 at 5:53am
I am reminded on a daily basis, but, especially this week how difficult it is to understand what is going on with one's body when going through a health condition of any sort, but particularly with something so challenging as IC.
Posted by drbrizman on October 8, 2008 at 12:30am
I posted on soy the other day. I rec'd a lot of comments. And, now another article from another patient: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/10/07/the-eviden...
Posted by drbrizman on October 5, 2008 at 4:36am
All of you in treatment know that I do not advocate the use of soy in the diet. Soy can insight a tremendous amount of pain. There is more to the soy story when it comes to IC, but ths article is a great one that gives some insight as to why soy is not what it might be cracked up to be for all people:http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/soy.htm
Posted by drbrizman on October 5, 2008 at 4:15am
14 mths ago I made the trip to LA from the UK. I’d suffered from numerous UTI’s over the last 20 years and developed symptoms known as IC about 2 years ago.
I was in constant pain and tied to the bathroom. I rejected investigative procedures from urologists and decided to embark on Matia’s program.
Posted by drbrizman on October 4, 2008 at 5:27am
I thought this week I would go over some practical issues to think about:
Posted by drbrizman on September 27, 2008 at 11:14pm
OK, this article is loaded. First, I want to say when you read it, that I do not advocate any kind of religeous message in any of my messages to all of you. Zero. I have my own private spiritual beliefs and would never advocate any religeous thought to anyone. Yesterday I spoke a bit about Buddah, but that was in the spirit of Buddah as a philosopher not as a religeon. It had no religeous implication. Today, this article touts a bit of Christianity, but this is also not the point of my message.
Posted by drbrizman on September 27, 2008 at 1:21am
Many of you know that when I start adding fruits back into the diet, typically, I will add in all of the berries first. The reason for this is that they are so nutritious, but they are also well tolerated in the bladder. In Chinese medicine, we looka t berries as very nourishing to the blood (and therefore the tissues). This is a great articel about berries and a couple other substances and their positive effects on cancer.http://www.naturalnews.com/024326.html
